The tasks and strategic directions of the development of the Institute of Horse Breeding and feed production in Kazakhstan were discussed at a government meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin.
The main strategic goals of the Institute are the preservation and improvement of the gene pool of Kazakh horse breeds along with scientific and practical coordination of breeding work of horse breeding. In order to achieve them, the institute in the near future faces the tasks of determining the necessary amount and sources of funding, attracting scientific and highly qualified specialists to work, as well as creating a material and technical base. As the head of the institute Alibek Bazargaliyev noted, in the near future, the country's leading horse breeders will conduct a survey of Kazakh breeding horses throughout the republic, following which a plan for the revival of horse breeds will be drawn up. According to preliminary calculations, the work on their revival will take at least five years. Also, the Institute of Horse Breeding and feed production, established on the basis of an agricultural experimental station, leaves part of the previous crop production activities as auxiliary, necessary to ensure horse breeding with full-fledged, balanced feeds.
The meeting heard the situation with Kazakh Tulpary LLP. There are less than a hundred breeding horses left at the stud farm specializing in the breeding of the Kostanay breed of horses. This is very little for breeding and popularization of this breed of horses. The issue of stables and conditions of keeping and breeding of noble animals is also acute. All these issues will also be resolved within the framework of the unified policy of preserving Kazakh horse breeds of the Institute of Horse Breeding, with the involvement of private investments. Taking into account that the Kostanay breed of horses is horse riding, racehorse, in the future it is planned to create an equestrian sports school on the basis of Kazakh Tulpary LLP.
There are 13 breeds of horses of various directions bred in Kazakhstan. Breeders, together with breeder practitioners, have developed widely known domestic horse breeds, such as the Kostanay horse-drawn line (1951), as well as the Kushum (1976) and Mugalzhar (1998) meat and dairy lines. Domestic breeds are valuable improvers of local horses in Kazakhstan. In terms of their productive qualities, they are at the level of world standards, and in terms of their adaptability to the harsh conditions of year-round pasture and grassland maintenance they have no analogues.

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